Missing persons families stage protest demo

KARACHI - Political activists belonging to different nationalist parties on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club and demanded that the missing Baloch persons should be recovered. The protest demonstration was attended by workers of Baloch Students Organisation, Baloch Rights Council BRC, Balochistan National Party and other Karachi and Balochistan-based Baloch nationalist organisations. The protesters were carrying banners and placards and chanting slogans against the Government. The families of the missing persons, who were participating in the protest, were carrying portraits of their missing loved ones. Earlier, the family members of several Baloch missing persons have staged a token hunger strike to register their protest against illegal detention of their relatives allegedly what they said had been kept by government agencies for several months. These detainees were allegedly picked up from different parts of Balochistan and from Baloch areas in different parts of the country. The protestors carrying portraits of missing persons and banners in support of their demands expressed fear that they would be killed.